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7
Tlio Supremo Court of Michigan hna
adopted tk'j course of administering
fines for vexatious nppenls.
. The Mexican Government has lately
ordered J, 000, 0(10 prnpo cuttings from
California, nml will distribute them frco
to nil who wish to plant them in
Mexico.
Tho French Chnmber is considering n
new law for entirely suppressing public
executions. The only spectators would
10 thoso designated by tho law, und 5
few whom the authorities might invite at
their discretion.
Very few of tho members of tho Italian
colony in Philadelphia were seized with
la grippe. This, it is said, is accounted
for by their free consumption of garlic,
nnd many of the peoplo in tho (Junker
City tried it both as n preventive and ns
ti remedy.
Queen Victoria admires American
oysters. On a recent outgoing steamei
were a dozen barrels of Loner Island
oysters bound for Windsor Castle. Thej
have been selected with great care, mid
their shells have been sandpapered and
polished until they are us smooth us a
well-worn pocket book.
A man in Illinois has just married hi'
si.Uh , wife. Every one of his wives
brought him a farm, nml ho is now one
of the largest landed proprietors in this
county. This shows, sagely observes
tuo Heading (I'enn.) Herald, that mar
riage is a great success if it is managed
properly, and that if a inau sticks to that
business, as well as any other, he is
botiud to romo out ahead in the cud.
: In the opinion of the Farm and Fire
tide, there can be seen tho promise of
tho timu when all tho great, treeless
prairies of the West will bo dotted over
with beautiful forest groves. Many
thousand neies of forest trees nro now
annually planted there. Hasteued by
necessity and encouraged by legislation
tho work is going on at uu accelerating
r.ile. Doubtless, ill a half century tho
n ip aiaMee and condition of tho whole
- Western country will be greatly changed
for tho better by timber culture.
k The members of tho Hoard of Police in
New York city received a distinguished
mark of consideration from an inhabitant
of Great Britain recently in tho shape of
t':e following epistle, which was evidently
i.idited nftcr the writer had taken a few
h .sons iu Volapuk : "I write these few
lir.es to ask you if you have any place for
the Hangman billet i say the elect, shock
is uo goo:l for execution I have a good
knot to hang murderers on. 1 wi.-cU to
roh if you by so kind and let my noh I
r.o'.i 1 shall suit in the Hilletus hungmann
i will show you tho knot on the paper so
good all I know bo I have no more to
say aud I nro your obligeut servant."
It is not often that two stones nro re
moved bvAjie killing of ono bird, but
such seijf 9 be the result of n recent iu
uovatufjT sporting customs. For years
- huaiauu peoplo and humane societies
have protested against tho shooting of
pigeons from traps, and tho ingenuity of
tho Uuited States has been devoted for a
time almost equal, to devising means for
tho elimination of tho English sparrow.
Now tho trap-shooters have taken to us
ing sparrows for targets, thus nt once
giving pigeons n chance for life and re
ducing the surplus of tho brown-feathered
little nuisances. It may be suggested
tll.'lt wllilt. iu riiflrv tn i ni.r.ti-kn icf.riii.ltv
to a sparrow, and this is probably true.
? Tho real answer seems to be that tho kill
ing of either sparrow or pigeon from a
trap is uo more cruel than to shoot tho
same bird free upon tho wing, but that,
while the sparrow is a pest, the pigeon is
a useful bird aid its butchery without
giving it a chance for its lifo is wnntou
and unsportsmanlike, threatening the ex
tinction of its kind.
i
I A member of tho suite, of a German
Prince tells a romantic story concerning
the youth of tho late Empress Augusta.
At tho ago of seventeen sho thought of
-nothing but the romances and gallantries
tho old French court, aud was pre
"V1 to fall in lovo with everything
rench. Sho was hedged in by most
irksome eticpiette in her father's couriof
Weimar. However, one day, a young
French nobleman of an undent family
arrived at Weimar. He daiued with the
Princess jit a court ball, aud they fell in
love at first sight. Secret meetings in
the palace grounds followed. Unfortu
nately Augusta's maid lost a letter from
tho Frenchman, u very tender und im
pussioued epistle, picturing among things
the ideal of love in tho pastorul lands of
the New World. It was discovered by
tho Grand Duke, who- indignation was
very great, Iu tho ti iuia -ut which
followed the Grand Ducal Chamberlain
challenged tho Frenchman to a duel and
killed him. lie died pressing a hand
kerchief of the Princess1 to his lips.
She never loved any oue else, her mar
riage with tho Euipeior William having
Leen simply "Hi' of convenience,
..-r. CUI BONO?
Over and over and over again
Bo runa the world awav. r
Como dawns of pearl, and golden moons, L
And twilights soft and gray.
Over and over and over again - ;
Throughout the live-long year
The Btnrs hang high In the midnight sky
It it hnpjien to be clear I
Over and over and over again
So runa the world away,
The rivers pour their crystal store
Into the gulf or bay.
Over and over and over ngnln
The wind so fierce and wild
Blows o'er the mead, unless, indeed,
It happens to be mild.
Over and over and over again I j
Ho runs the world away,
The white, white souls of angels come
To visit earth a day.
And when their little day is done
Brief hours of grief and pain.
These men and women go to bo
Bright angels once again!
Over and over and over again
The world is white with snow, '
Over and over the flowers bloom
As seasons come and go,
Over and over and over again
Young Cupid bags his game;
Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief
To him they're all the same ! "
Over and over and over again
We poets feel inspired;
Over and over we write our lays.
Till readers (and we) get tired I
Over and over and over again
We eat and drink and die
Tay old Time's tips, pass in our chips 'i
I'd like to know just wbyr
Detroit Free Press.
THE WHITE FUR CAPE.
"Do you think she'll like it, Mrs.
Lifford?"
"Wal, I declare, I don't sco how sho
can help liking it," said Mrs. Lifford,
turning her head this way and that liko
on elderly blackbird, as sliu viewed the
pretty little fur cape at that moment
lying on tho kitchen table, lined with
cherry-silk, nnd exactly matching tho tiny
muff in its paper box beyond.
Vp in that frozen North-land the snow
was heaped liko masses of alabaster to
the very window sills, and one could
only reach tho door through a passage
way of rough-hewn pearl.
Far oil tho lake gleamed like a floor of
frozen steel, while tho cedar thickets
drooped beneath their weight of snow,
and the keen January wind cut like
a knife; for in Manigro winter meant
winter.
Mrs. Lifford was a little, shriveled old
woman, dressed in some quilted woolen
material, with a white milled cap and
round silver spectacles.
John lieuoit was a tall, brown-faced
young farmer an Apollo of these North
ern woods whoso costume, oddly
mingled of homespun and fur, reminded
one of tho old history-book pictures of
Daniel Boone.
"It's only a rabbit-skin cape after all,"
said tho young man, tenderly fingering
the soft folds. "Hut I shot every one of
the rabbits myself, and they're all as
white as milk. And Desire Whatman,
that used to sew furs iu a Montreal store,
she cut tho pattern and bought the
lining and stuffing, and made it up all
ship-shape. It looks liko Leah, now
don't it? so pure and white and in
nocent like. Aud I was dreadfully dis
appointed that it couldn't be done in time
for New Year's; but they tell me there'
to bo a grand Twelfth Night sleighing
party for tho grand house where she's
visiting, so I culculnto it'll come just in
time ufter nil."
Mrs. Lifford smiled and nodded.
"She'll be powerful pleased," said
she. "I'm glad you brung it over to
show me, John. I can jest fancy how
she'll look in it!"
"I'll take it across to the express office
right away," said John. "There's a
shipment of furs going by tho midnight
train, and I'm detailed to pack 'em, so
things will work in sort o handy."
'A Twelfth Day present oh, Leah,
what luck you are in!" said Evadno
Ledyard. "Open it, somebody! Let
us sco what it is!"
Thero had been a party the night be
fore nt tho Ledyard mansion something
was going on all the time and tho eld
est Miss Ledyard, in au amazing tea
gown of cherry plush, was leaning back
in a cushioned divan, studying out some
new stitch in worsted combinations,
while Evadno leaned against the mantle,
one pretty, slippered foot on the fender,
and her bright eyes sparkling ' with ani
mation. The onyx clock ticked softly; the blue
ribboned . pug, curled up in his" quilted
eatin nest, blinked hio eyes at the col
ored servant who hud brought in tho big
express package, and Leah Lifford her
self blushed to tho roots of her "bon
nie brown hair" us she recognized the
bold, uncultivated writing of her lover.
She was a dove-eyed, sweet-faced girl
of eighteen, with an exquisito lily-and-carnalion
complexion and the uncon
scious graco of a wD,d fawn, und even
tho critical Misses Ledyard looked fa
vorably upon her as she ran to open the
box w ith tho glee of a child.
"A white fur cape!" sho cried, ra
diantly. "Oh, how beautiful!"
"Ermine?" questioned Evadne, loan
ing eagerly forward. . "No only rabbit
skin!"
Leah looked up with a troubled ex
pression in the sweet hazel eyes.
"But rabbit skins nro very warm," said
she. "Aren't they?"
"Goodness ine!" curtly rejoined Evad
ne, "so is whito flannel!"
"And thero isn't a speck nor a spot
on it."
"No," absently spoke Evadne.
"But of courte you wouldn't wear
rabbit skins iu Moutreul?" cried Magda
lene, tho elder sister.
"Why not? John Benoit shot the
rabbits himself. He says so in the note.
It is a lovely capo !"
' "Listen, Leah!" cried Evadne, taking
.loth tho plump little liuiid iu hers,, "J'u
going to betray a tro-men-dous secret!
Eugene is going to give you the loveliest
seal jacket you ever saw. It's coming
home this evening just in timo for the
Twelfth Night sleigh ride 1"
Leah colored scarlet.
"Oh, Evadne 1 Hut but I don't want
him to give me such an expensive pres
ent. Please please tell him not!"
"Annuder box done come by specious
messenger for Misses Leah," cried old
Hamilcnr, as ho stalked into tho room.
"And it 'pears to me dnt it's directed in
Marso Eugene's hnnd-ob-write."
"Rabbit-skins! In Montreal!" scorn
fully cried out Magdalene. "No lover
alive could expect ono to mnko such a
sacrifice as that for him. Open the oth
er box, Lenh."
"Who said he was a lover?" cried
poor Leah, tho rose flood once more dye
ing (her cheek. "Hut tho whito cape
was his present, nnd I'll wear it. And
please tell Eugene I'm very much obliged
to him, but I'd rather not take tho seal
jacket from him."
It is very easy to make an excuse for a
thing thnt wo wnnt to do, and the bitter
coldness of the weather did not keep
John Benoit fiom coming up to the great
fur warehouse in Montreal, to see to the
safe arrival of tho consignment of skins
from Manigro, on the sixth day of Janu
ary. "Can you tell mo," said ho to the
spruce book-keeper, "where Squire Led
yard lives?"
"Can I tell you?" said Mr. Mince.
"Of course I can. Didn't we send a
crack seal jacket up there, not two hours
ago, addressed to the young ludy who is
staying there?"
"Miss Lifford?"
"That's the name. Oh, by-the-way,
I've heard she's a Manigro lady. -Perhaps
you know her. Quite a sensation
she's made in society, they tell me. Mr.
Lcdyard's hopelessly gone on her the
youug fellow, you know. It was ho who
ordered the seal jacket a three hundred
dollar one, tho finest in tho city.
Poor Johu Benoit I His heart sank
within him. Whnt chance could ho
possibly have against this Montreal ex
quisite? How could his little low-eaved
stono house, among tho pine forests,
compare with this city of marble palaces
and glitteriug pinnacles?
"It's all up with me," he muttered to
himself. "And I, poor fool! was so glad
vdien Mrs. Lifford consented to give
Leah a chance to see the world by visit
ing her grnmlcousins in tho city. I dure
say sho and thoy aro laughing now at my
wretched little" coney-skins."
Ho skulked through tho gaslit streets
that evening, his squirrel cap drawn over
his eyes, and his hands buried deep in
hisjiocketSjiu such a way that more than
one policeman paused to look suspicious
ly after him, until ho came opposite tho
great house on Quotidian Square.
There," sheltered by a hooded stono
archway, ho stopped to watch for the
sleighing, party he had hoard of.
"Last, Twelfth Night wo danced in
Farmer Olston's kitchen," ho thought,
"with torches stuck up against the walls,
and a big"' tiro that roared up tho chim
ney like tho conflagration nt Home. And
we heard tho, starved wolves barking in
the woods as .we drove homo in my red
cutter. Oh, well, her knowledge of the
world is considerably widened since
thoso days! Sho wouldn't caro for
Farmer Olston's dunce.and my red cutter
now !" as he watched the glittering plated
harness on tho magnificent horses, and
observed the flash ot the lamps, the gleam
of the velvet cushions, the floating pile
of the black-fox robes. "I'll just stand
here long enough to sco , her come out,
wearing her new lovers Eeal-skins, and
then I'll go somenvhere where there's, a
fire, for i bclievo. my heart Is getting 'to,
Uo in toucn witn tno thermometer!
Not until many a brilliant sleigh.'lond
had driven off, however, did Leah
Lifford Anally como out, wearing, not
the sumptuous seal-skins, but a simple
enpo of white fur, from which her sweet
face rose up like a softly-tinted 'rosebud.
She entered tho covered sleigh alone;
old Hamilton called out:
"Drive to do Canadian Pacific station,
Pete an' mind yo' go fast ! Yo' hear?"
The trunk was ' fastened on behind,
there was a general exchango of adieux.
and haud-kissings, and amid the crunch
ing of half-frozen snow beneath tho runf
ners and the chime of gold-plated bells,
the sleigh darted away.
Hastily signaling a waiting calce.hc,
Benoit jumped into it, and almost before,
Leah had taken hcr;tickct to MuuigrOjthc,
was besido her.
"John oh, John!" sho cried out..
"Don't be frightened, Leah. Do, you
not see that I am here! ho said teiylerly.
"You aro going home alone?"
"I could not stay longer, John; and
they were so vexed at me for leaving them
that they would not any oft them come
with rue, whispered Leah.
"I thoughtjyou were so happyijthere,
Leah."
"So I was; but but Eugene 1 Led
yard asked me to be his wife; und "(
"is ue not very nen, .Leant
"Yes; but I didn't love him.ljohn!"
"You would not wear the seal) jacket
ho gave you?"
"No!" with a slight downward Iglance
nt tho white mantle that encircled her in,
its folds.
"Aud vou wear my cupc?" '
"Yes, John." !
"Leah my ownione can it be possi-,
ble that you really'lovo me?" '
"You know that I love you, John!"
It was midnight when they reached
Mauigro midnight, , jeweled over with
the bhiuo of frozen stars, mado musical
with tho creaking of wind-tossed trees,
the clink of icicles, tho far-off cry of
prowling fox or starved wolf and in tho
window of the little house a light burned,
liko a solitary red star.
"I telegraphed to granny that I should
come to-night," said Leah, "and there's
Lucie Ben, waiting for mo iu tho old
sleigh. Good-night, John! Wasn't it
lucky that you happeued to bo on the
traiut"
"Stop!" cried John. "This is Twelfth
Night, und I've a right to twelve kisses
before we part." I
,' "Se'uil to jjue," said the gruil voice of ,
TTncleBcn, "that's a queer kind o' 'rlth
metic!" But he feigned to bo - very busy with
his harness just then. Good Uncle I3e.n I
SiUurday Right.
A Remarkable Criminal.
The convict Kaps, who was sentenced
to death at tho last Paris assizes, has
been executed. On his trial he betrayed
an utter absence of moral sense, and such
ferocity as to greatly help tho Procurcur
of the Republic in urging tho jury not to
admit extenuating circumstances. Kaps,
though but nineteen years of age, was an
old criminal. Last March on finishing
his time at tho Mazas prison for a minor
crime, ho murdered one Lconio Drien,
with whom he had lived, because she
knew of some worse offence which he had
committed. While investigating this
crime it was found that ho had, at tho
age of fourteen, beaten tho brains out of
an old man in a shop in Paris to rob him.
Since his conviction Kaps was so violent
that tho straight waistcoat had to bo re
sorted to. Kaps was awake when the
Governor of the prison, M. Bcauqucsne,
entered his cell at 7 o'clock. "Who's
there?" said the condemned man, who
had been walking about nervously in his
cell since 4 o'clock. "Brace yourself up,
Kaps," said the Governor; "your appeal
for mercy has been rejected." "I'll do
my best," replied tho felon, who, al
though ho refused tho ministrations of
the chaplain, asked that gentleman to
embrace his father and mother for him.
Kaps then drank two glasses of ruin, and
while being "clipped" and prepared for
the lunette in the "dead men's dressing
room," he swallowed four more. Des
pite tho supply of strong spirits, Kaps
did not walk courageously to the place
of execution, and when ho emerged
through the prison gato ho turned his
head to tho right, so ns, not to sec tho
"guillotine." After thnt, however, he
became somewhat calmer, pushing back
the crucifix which the priest placed be
fore him, but embracing the Abbo Fauro
for the last time as his only friend. Then
one of M. Didder's deputies dragged off
nn old coat which had been thrown over
tho prisoner's shoulders owing to tho
cold weather, aud the felon was hustled
on to tho bascule, or "sliding-plaue,"
leading to tho luguetto into which his
head was thrust. The knifo was pulled
down by M. Deibler. After a mock
buriaUu tho "turnip field" nt Ivry, Kaps's
body was handed over to the faculty of
medicine for dissection. London Stand
ard. The Richest or All Plants.
What is ramie?
It was formerly placed by the botanists
in the class of Urticn, but it u now called
Boehnieria, or spearless nettle.
I will call it by no scientific name, I
will simply name it tho richest of nil
plants, for it possesses wealth of growth,
wealth of development, and wealth of
fiber, says Jules Juvenit. In ordinary
light ground, with a little watering now
aud then by rain or irrigation, no plant
will grow so rapidly, no root will multi
ply more quickly nnd produce more
stalks; no vegetable fiber is handsomer,
richer or more silky than ramie.
It is a perennial plant, and when once
put in tho ground it grows for over
twenty years without replanting; giving,
according to tho climate, two or three
crops a year; it is easy of cultivation, re
quiring only a soil clean and loose ; it is
planted iu straight rows three feet apart,
in a small up-hill form; the plants must
bo kept very close, in order to shoot
forth straight stalks, without any
branches; it grows ubout liko willow,
an average of fifteen to twenty switches,
from six to eight and ten feet high, cov
ered on the upper part with large green
leaves, white underneath.
Through its leaves ramio takes its
nourishment from the ozono of tho air.
This developed part of nourishment of
the plant, added to the largo extensive
'propensity of the mother root, from
which runs horizontally and down a lot
of rhizomes and smaller roots, explain
the extraordinary vitality of the plant and
its three and four crops a year in some
countries.
Tho Chinese alone have for 1000 years
past extensively cultivated the ramio
plant; before them tho Egyptians were
shrouding their dead in magnificent
winding sheets of ramie, which to this
day are found in tho baudages of their
mummies Chicago Timet.
,; Agilo Women.
, The writer was recently riding on tho
rear platform of a Fifth street car, when,
i'as tho horses sped along, a pretty, rose
cheeked, ugilo youug lady, with skirts
gathered neatly iu ono hand, swung
gracefully aboard and took a seat.
"She's pretty uctive," remarked tho
writer. "Oh, sho does that every day,"
replied the conductor. "We never stop
for her. Thero ure a number of ladies
on this lino who never signal tho driver
to stop. One of these is un old lady of
sixty years, aud she is one of our most
regular -passengers. No matter how fast
the car is going sho can swiug on as
easilyj and gracelully us a man. We
never stop for her. It would mako her
angry' if wo did. But if her husband is
along ho signals us to stop, lie doesn't
like to have his aged wife appear so
giddy, und besides, ho is troubled with
gout to such an extent that, if he were
to attempt to board a car while in
motion, he would measure his length on
tho street." Cincinnati Tiiau-Star.
How Long Should We Sleep!
Vp to tho fifteenth year most young
people require ten hours, und until th't
twentieth year nine hours. After that
uge every one finds out how 'much ho oi
bhe requires, though, as a general rule,
at least six to to eight hours is uecessarv.
Eight hours' sleep will prevent mort
nervous derangements in ' women than
any medicine cjuld cure. During grow tu
there must be ample sleep if the brain is
to develop to its full esteiit; und tut
more nervous, excitable or precocious a
child is, the longer sleep should it get, ij
its intellectual progress is not to come l
a premature standstill, or its lite cut
short ut au early age. ,-
MONEY IN MANY LANDS.
PFCTJXIARITIES in banknotes op
FOREIGN COUNTRIES.
PlrtnrPBqtio Currencies of France,
IltiHNia, AiiNtriaand Italy China's
Uill-Ktclicd rtnnk Hills.
It was a (plaint little old man whom I
met some days ngo in a iittlc foreign
looking money-changer's shop near
Bowling Green. I found him peculiarly
ipt in the information I asked. Ho had
handled money in nearly every Capital in
Europe.
"This," he said, as he picked tip a
flank of England note, "is tho plainest
af currency to be found in any country in
the world, and it is pood for gold in any
land under the sun where white men or
yellow live."
The Bank of England note is nbout
five inches by eight in dimensions, and
is printed iu black ink on Irish linen
water-lined paper, plain white and with
ragged edges, which lacks tho oily
smoothness of our own bank notes. ,
"It looks easy enough to counterfeit,"
remarked my ancient guard, "but, in
fact, the Bank of England suffers as little
from counterfeiters ns nny similar institu
tion in the world. ' Tho notes aro never
reissued, but nre burned as soon ns they
come back to the bnnk, aud the paper is
mado for that sole purpose, and that is
the greatest safeguard. In sending a
note by mail or express, the note is al
ways cut iu two and the halves sent sep
arately. "The showiest currency to be found
outside of China aro the notes issued by
the Bnnquo de Franc," ho continued, as
he picked out a piece of paper thnt resem
bled a small show bill. The paper itself
is white water-lined, printed in blue and
black, with numerous mythological and
allegorical pictures, and running in de
nominations from the twenty-franc note
to the 1000 franc.
"Not easy to counterfeit, but far from
artistic," was the remark of the man, as
he pulled out. a variety of Italian notes of
all shapes, sizes and colors. The smaller
bills five and ten lire notes aro about
the size und shape of our own old twenty
five cent "shin-plaster" fractional cur
rency, and printed on whito paper in
pink, blue and carmine inks, nnd orna
mented with a finely engraved vignette
of King Humbert. The larger notes nre
about the size of our "greenbacks," and
arc elaborately engraved, but to my eye
they are neither beautiful nor artistic.
They aro worth more away from homo
than they were a few years ago, though,
owing to King Humbert's wise rule.
"But here is your elaborate bank note,"
continued the old man, as he brought to
light a gorgeous piece of paper about four
inches by ten. It was the hundred-ruble
note of Russia. Tho note was barred from
top to bottom with all tho colors of tho
rainbow, blended as when thrown through
a prism. In the centre, in bold relief,
stood a large, finely executed vignette of
tho Empress Catherine I. This was in
black. The other engraving was not at
nil intricate or elaborate, but was well
done in dark nnd light brown and black
inks.
"Tho Russians look upon that ns tho
height ol artistic work," said Shylock,
"and it has ono merit. Tho jiaper is
made by a secret process and the note has
never been counterfeited. It is also worth
its face value in every capital in Europe
nnd Asia. The smaller Russian notes,
tho twenty-five and fifty ruble bills, are
about one-third smaller und not as gor
geously colored. The smallest denomina
tion iu Russian currency is iivo rubles,
about $2.50 iu United States currency.
"Hero is a peculiar bill, but a very
goodidca, I think," continued the money
changer, as he showed mo another bill.
"This is from Austria, and, like all his
Majesty Francis Joseph's currcucy, is in
two languages. On one side it is Austrian
nnd on the other Hungarian, for ' the
benefit of the Maygars."
The bill was printed on a light-colored
thick pnper, whicn showed none of the
silk-fibre marks or geometric lines used iu
our own currency, ns a protection against
counterfeiting. But, like the German
currency, each bill bears upon it a terri
blo warniug to counterfeiters, threaten
ing penitentiary confinement "to any one
who shall make, sell or have in his pos
session any counterfeit or fac-similo of
this bill." The engraving is profuse
with angel heads and artistic scroll work.
The lowest denomination in currency is
the one florin, worth ubout forty cents
of our money. The highest bill is the
ono-thousaud-florin note.
The German currency israiher nrtistic.
The bills arc printed iu green and black
upon paper lighter than our own gold
certificates, and about an inch wider.
They run in denominations from five
marks to 1000 marks. Their later bills
aro being printed on the silk-fiber paper.
Tho Norwegians have a curious cur
rency, but it is rarely seen hero, for tho
reason that it circulates very little among
the common people and tho class that
comes here as immigrants. These stick
to their copper and silver coins and shun
tho little cinnamon-brown bills of their
Government, which are about the size of
our old "shin-plasters."
Tho Chinese paper currency is hi red,
white and yellow paper, with gilt letter
tering aud gorgeous littlu hand-drawn
devices. The bills, to the ordinary
financier, might pass for wash checks or
prayer papers in a Joss House, but they
are worth good money in the Flowery
Kingdom. South American currcucy, in
most countries, is about the sizo aud
general appearance of our owu bills, ex
cept that cinnamon brown and slate blue
arc the prevailing colors, and the Span
ish and Portuguese languages the preva
lent languages engraved ou tho face.
AVt York ttur.
The Citizens' Committee, of Chicago,
has accepted the design for an equestrian,
statue of General (Jrai t made by Mr. Re
bisno, of Cincinnati. The statue is to bo
eighteen feet six iuches high und will
cost 25,000.
M. Eiffel, the builder of the famous
tower baa, it is stated, just purchased a
snug town-house for the sum of 100,000
in toe Rue Rabelais, Paris.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
CLEAN TINWAnU.
If you want to judge of the quality ot
a housewife, glance at her tinware hang
ing in tho kitchen. If it is bright nnd
shining and nrranged nently so astogivo
good effect, just set the woman in chargo
down as an Al housekeeper, and worthy
of any man. Some woT.cn will clean
their tins, but if they are not good house
wives they will rarely arrange them in a
neat methodical way in their places.
Washington Star.
PIT-LOWS AND BOLSTERS.
Where pillows are used on the bed in
the daytime, they are usually the largo
size, measuring twenty-seven inches by
thirty-four. In many cases, however,
the pillows nro left off tho bed and a
round bolster is substituted. This latter
mode is often adopted when a lace cover
let over colored silk or satin is used in
place of a white counterpane. The bol
ster is then covered with silk and lace to
match the remainer of the bed. There
is no certain rule in such matters, how
ever. Each housewife uses her taste,
and a pair of lace shams over silk aro
quite as often used. With a white bed,
which many housekeepers prefer, iu spite
of the fashionable use of color, pillows
and pillow shams of hemstitchad or cm
broiderei linen or muslin are used. Hem
stitched linen pillow cases are now Bold
so low that they are in quite geueral use.
2Veto York Tribune.
A COZY COBJJER.
The foundation for such really decora
tive nnd useful furnishing is laid in learn
ing to use ordinary tools, such ns tho
hammer, saw, pi me, and so on. It is a
mistake, to say the least, to divide infius
trial training so that all of one kind falls
to girls and nil of another to boys.
Mothers will do well to teach Bert nnd
Sam gentle manners by letting them hold
the baby sometimes, while Kate and Lou
spend a jolly hour or so in tho shop with
their fntlier, learning to drive a nail with
out pounding their fingers off, and to do
tho numberless odd jobs, they will con
stantly bo thankful as housekeepers for
knowing how to do.
Among the comfortable and ornamen
tal details of furnishing, corner seats
built into the house have an important
place. They nre just the thing to put iu
the corners made by chimneys, to build
into bow-windows and into odd nooks
all over the house. Tho frames are enjily
and cheaply put together, and the cush
ions and covers nro inexpensive if mado
at homo. Excelsior makes a good filling
for the seats nnd backs. For the cush
ions, use curled hair or feathers, and by
all means have one in each corner filled
with tho odorous pine needles aud fir
boughs. Whatever the materials used
for filling andcovers, the cushions should
bo large, and there should be plenty of
them. Covers of "crushed"' plush are
pretty. They aro made simply with a
silk cord about the edges, or ornamented
with rich applique work. Tho better
qualities of cretoons make nice-looking
cheap covers for these pillow-cushions.
There should bo a strong inner cover of
closely-woven stuff when silk outsido
covers aro used, nnd ulways upon fir pil
lows. Wash silks are the only ones suit
able for covers, and they should be more
easily detachable. Courier-Journal.
ItECII'KS.
Molasses Drop Cakes One cup each
of sugar, molasses and shortening, two
eggs, one teuspoonful each of ginger und
soda, one-fourth cup of cold water nnd
four cups of flour; diop in tho tins with
u spoon.
Fried Eggs With Pickles Put
enough butter, dripping or ham fat into
a hot frying pan to cover tho bottom;
break in as many eggs as it will hold ;
dust them with pepper and salt; have
ready a pickle chopped very line; put
this into the pan as the eggs come out of
it for one minute; sprinkle over the eggs
in their dish.
Cream Sauce One fourth of a cup of
butter, one cupful of powdered sugar,
two tablespoonfuls of milk or cream,
flavored to taste; cream tho butter, add
tho sugar slowly, add tho milk, beat
hard; last, add the flavoring; just before
serving, place the bowl containing tho
sauce in a pail of hot water, but not long
enough to melt tho butter; beut very
hard und serve.
Spanish F.ggs Boil ten eggs twenty
minutes, then remove the shells, nnd
slice them into a hot dish ; fry one otiion
in two tablespoonfuls of butter until
delicately browned; mix a tabhspoonful
of arrowroot iu a cupful of cream, add
half a cupful of hut water; add this to
the onion, and stir until thick und
creamy; season with salt aud pepper,
pour over the eggs, and servo at once.
Turkey and Poached Eggs Chop cold
roast turkey meat fine, with a very small
onion, put what gravy there is into a
stew pan with a small piece of butter;
add tho meat, und heat very hot over tho
fire; pouch enough eggs to allow oue for
each person to be served; turn the meat
into the center of a hot plutter; place
the eggs around the edge, and serve
together; tho onion can bo omitted aud
celery used if preferable.
Gumbo Sou Cut up a chiekcu ns for
a fricassee; slice an union and fry it
brown iu sweet lard or butter; remove
the onion uud brown tho chiekcu deli
cately; also brown a quart of okra pods,
sliced; then place all in a kettle, and
cover with boiling water; add half a c m
of toiuutoes; allow it to cook until tho
chicken is tender; remove all largo
bones, and salt und cayenne, add utahlc
spoouful of Worcestershire sauce, servo
with boiled rice.
Boiled Bread Pudding Cover stale
pieces of bread with boiling water; let
the in stand fifteen minutes, draiu them
and press out all the surplus water; beat
four eggs li.yht, add to them a pint aud
u half of milk; add this to the bread
with half a teaspoouful of salt ami
half a cupful of suar; mix and turn into
n mold, und ttiain oue hour; serve witli
lemon sauce; currants and chopped
eaisins can be added to this recipe if de
sired, tanking a very ilcUcivu; ..pudding
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.
Despair not, erring brother!
Be a man! ' .
What is lost you may recover
Be a man !
Let not reverses move you;
There still at-e those who love you.
And Heaven is still above you -lie
a man !
Have done with reckless folly
t Be a man !
, Throw off your melancholy I
' Be a man !
Resolve to give up ainning, , ,
To-day make a beginning.
And you are sure of winning "
Be a man!
The star of hope is shining
Be a man !
Useless is your repining
Be a man !
Tut forth a firm endeavor . j
To break your bonds forever,
And Heaven will leave you never!
Francis S. Smith, in Sew York Weekly.
HUMOR OF THE DAT. I
First Butcher "How's business?"
Second Butcher "Tough."
The man who turns over a new leaf t)0
often will soon use up his ledger.
Tho natives of Alaska are a cold and
distant people. Philadelphia Inquirer.
Tho weigh of the transgressor is any
thing less than sixteen ounces to the
pound.
There is a wide difference between the
clock on the mantel and the "Watch on
the Rhine."
Don't allow yourself to bo carried
away by enthusiasm you may have to
walk back. Philadelphia Press.
Customer "What's that bird on the
clock for?" Dealer "That's to help
time fly." Binghamton Republican.
"No man's work is undone." "Mino
is always." "What is your business?"
"I'm a collector." Munsey't Weekly.
In the spring the young sprig's fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love. Tho
trees become sappy about tho same time.
Time.
Rich Patient "Hadn't you better
bleed me, doctor?" Physician "Well,
not until the end of the quarter." Mun
tey't Weekly.
The Western Major who refused to
"let the dead past bury its dead," with
out a permit, wilted when informed that
it had a poetic license. Time.
The glut:on differa greatly from
The tramp who hungers in the street; j
The former always eats too long,
The latter always longs to eat. ' J
Chicago Herald.
Peoplo who engage in turkey shooting
matches must expect to be cheated.
How can there be anything fair about
such a fowl contest? Rdtimore Ameri
can. He "I suppose you aro very busy
nowadays preparing your poem for com
mencement?" She "Oh, yes, indeed.
I've tried tho waist on twice already."
Judge.
"She's nothing but a thief, but when
I engaged her I was told she had been
ten years in her lost place." "So she
mas. The place was Sing Sing."
Munsey't Weekly.
An Illinois woman broke her wrist
trying to raiso a car window. There's
pluck for you. Most women would
have crippled every man in the car first.
Burlington Free Press.
Suitor "I lovo ycur youngest daugh
ter, sir." Pater "Umph! I suppose
you've heard that I have settled a dowry
on my eldest daughter?" Suitor "In
that case, sir, I lovo her." Epoch.
Their First and Only Chance. First
Man (excitedly) "Our boarding-house is
on fire!" Second Man (calmly) "Come,
then, hurry up and perhaps we may bo
able to get something hot." Jury.
A Young Married Couple. "Why,
Charles, if 1 didn't actually see you yawn
jut now." "Well, dearest, you know
that we are now one, aud I never can
keep awake when I'm alone." Judge.
"What do you think of my collection
pf entomological specimens?" asked au
enthusiastic bug collector of Cuniso.
"Well," replied Cumso, "you can see
for yourself that there are flics on it."
Time.
Littlo Freddy "God made every
thing, didn't He?" Mr. Stickney
"Yes, Freddy, and Ho made everything
for some purpose." Littlo Freddy
(musingly) "I wonder what Ho mado
you for." Epoch.
Clil Maid (who wants a portrait of her
dog) "Do you take instantaneous photo
graphs here?" Photographer's Boy
"Yes, ma'am; run right in, aud he'll
take you afore you're a minute older."
.Yew York Weekly.
An old beggar is seated in a door-way
with a placard hung about his neck in
scribed: "Blind from birth." Another
mendicant passing by reads the inscrip
tion uud comments thus. "My eye!
didn't he begin tho biz youug?"
Judge.
Some Curious Chinese Slang.
Some of the ordinary expressions of
the Chinese aro very sarcastic and
characteristic. A blustering hurmless
fellow they call a "paper tiger." When
a man values himself overmuch they
compare him to "a rat falliug into a
scale and weighing itself." Overdoing
a thing they call u "hunchback making
a bow." A spendthrift they compare to
a rocket w hich goes oil ut once. Those
who expend their charity ou remote ob
jects, but neglect their family, are said
'to hang a lantern ou a rope, which is
seen afar but yves uo light below."
13, )Lm Herald. '
Aii Applo Uii bled by Thread.
To cut uu apple into quurtert pass a
string by means of a needle across thb
apple, which is divided by pulling tho
two ends of tile striug, crossing under the
peel. Operate iu the same maimer ou
the oppusi'e side of the apple, so as to
divide it into a second half, ami it will
be perfectly divided iuto quarters, al.
though enveloped by the peel. .